You do the math

Ontario Provincial Police officers stopped and checked more than one million vehicles during the 2010-11 RIDE program and charged 294 people with impaired driving — virtually the same as during last year’s campaign.

What I read into this is that Manitoba RCMP are being more selective in choosing which drivers to pull over, i.e. hanging out near bars at closing time, perhaps something similar to what city police are doing. I put forward the argument that this is a more effective way of dealing with the issue.

Just over one half of 1% in the case of Manitoba. Not even statistically significant in the Ontario example. What is a reasonable target for these numbers? How are they discouraging? The way they are gathered,or as Paul says the wildly different enforcement techniques make these comparisons completely irrelevant, and statistically useless.